CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PICTURE BOOKS: Sunday, November 23rd 2008

Published: November 23, 2008

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Nov. 8, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Perennial sellers are not actively tracked. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. All four children’s lists appear each week on the Book Review’s Web site. Publishers have provided the age designations for their best-selling children’s titles.

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CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PICTURE BOOKS

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BARACK OBAMA: SON OF PROMISE, CHILD OF HOPE, by Nikki Grimes. Illustrated by Bryan Collier. (Simon & Schuster, $16.99.) Yes, he can; a children’s biography of the president-elect. (Ages 5 to 10)

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GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Workman, $12.95.) Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)

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BIG WORDS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE, by Jamie Lee Curtis. Illustrated by Laura Cornell. (Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, $16.99.) A boisterous family improves its vocabulary, and thus its relationships. (Ages 4 to 8)

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SWING!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Workman, $12.95.) Athletic children seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)